Don't know if I'm sleeping and just dreamt that Ubaldo pitched a decent six innings, wiggling out of a sticky situation or two, but it would be nice if today was his worst game of the season. Gotta dream...

I've tried 'em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.~~~Annie Savoy-"Bull Durham"

Reynolds has had the worst 4 at bats I have seen from a single player in one game. Morrow is about as nasty as they come but Reynolds was pitiful. The entire bottom third of the order has been pretty shambolic tonight.

<3 Brantley

"There is but one thing of real value: to cultivate truth and justice and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men"

Not a fan of Francona going to Perez back-to-back days when he missed most of Spring Training, but I digress.

Mark Reynolds haters in full force. Not shocking.

When's the last time we had a guy that could hit a ball 457 feet that's 95 mph and neck-high?

For every few strikeouts, he's going to do that. We could have had Casey Kotchman weakly grounding out to 1st.

Liked the way Ubaldo mixed pitches. He got away with some, and I'm not sure he can sit 91-92 and be effective, but he threw some great sliders and change-ups. It looks like the gameplan for him is to become a pitcher and not a thrower. We'll see if it holds up. It looked like Francona/Callaway were calling the game, not Santana. I could be wrong, but that's the impression I got.

A God Damn dead man would understand that if a minor league bus in any city took a real sharp right turn, a Zack McCalister would likely fall out. - Lead Pipe

I was thinking the same thing. I had the Toronto feed on the MLB Extra Innings package and right before those three got up, they showed a stat that Morrow's K/9 last year went down nearly 3 from the year before because he was throwing more hittable pitches early in the count to get guys out quicker. He then proceeded to mow down those guys as if three junior varsity high school kids won a contest to bat in a major league game.

You could see that Morrow was irritated with Brantley and Carlos' two weak hits against him, and he decided that the next three guys weren't going to touch the ball. I wish we had a guy who could dial it up like that to get out of jams.